Landscape and Garden Designers

We'll help you take time and cost out of the design process and use great technology to serve your clients better.

Vectorworks Landmark 2017 is transforming landscape and garden design practices through its intelligent 2D/3D site design with BIM tools that produce a wealth of information to ensure your designs are stunning as well as within budget.

Training

We are the Vectorworks Landmark experts. We offer many options for training, from one to one through to group classes

With our Vectorworks Landmark training courses we have trained more garden and landscape design practices to use Vectorworks Landmark than anyone else. We can train you one to one, as part of a small group or on one of our scheduled classes—at our office in Newbury or at yours. All of our experienced Vectorworks trainers are also trained designers as well, so they understand the business issues and can relate the technology to your business needs. Our approach is relaxed and Vectorworks training days are always fun. We offer a wide range of training courses, but here is our portfolio of interest to the landscape industry.

Courses suitable for Landscape Architects or Garden Designers:

Before embarking on industry-specific training, we recommend all our customers start with our Vectorworks Foundation course. This course will teach you the basics of drawing in 2D with Vectorworks, how files and resources are arranged and how to make your 2D work look great! We also get you started with 3D, showing you the Push/Pull modelling features in Vectorworks and introduce you to walls, doors and windows.

Following on from Vectorworks Foundation Training, attend the one day Vectorworks Landmark course to learn how to draw up a simple survey, add hard landscaping and create planting plans. There is a classroom option or a one to one training option.

The Vectorworks Landmark tools enable you to model many landscape features, such as buildings, paving, walls and planting, without the need to learn 3D modelling. However, those of you who are used to direct modelling with an application such as Sketchup, will love the range of free-form modelling tools available within Vectorworks which will take you from concept design through to finished models.

Suitable for landscape designers and architects, this course covers how to create a site model using survey data from a variety of different sources. It looks at site analysis, including choosing the optimum level for buildings and other landscape features. You will then learn how to modify the site to accommodate your design and calculate cut and fill volumes. The resulting model is suitable for inclusion within a BIM project.

Landscape Architects, particularly those looking to engage in BIM projects, will benefit from this end to end course which starts with survey input, building a site model, moves through the design process, including schedules, and looks at IFC export for BIM.

Landscape Architects, particularly those looking to engage in BIM projects, will benefit from this end to end course which starts with survey input, building a site model, moves through the design process, including schedules, and looks at IFC export for BIM.

Product

We have selected the most relevant products to suit your needs:

Vectorworks Landmark with Renderworks has rapidly become the industry standard for Landscape Architects, and Garden Designers. Rich with features that understand the landscape, such as hard landscaping and planting tools, and schedules, Vectorworks Landmark is the obvious choice for any landscape designer, and ideal for projects where BIM is a requirement.
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Consultancy

How else can we help you?

We can offer a range of services after your training to help you to create a system that works efficiently and effectively for you. Often, change is about more than training. It's about setting up processes that will suit your business. We're often commissioned to help a practice design and document their process, before sharing it with the rest of the team.

For many Landscape Architects, BIM (Building Information Modelling) is on the agenda for forthcoming projects. This will involve a change in processes, working practice and the way you use your CAD software. We can help get you started with our BIM readiness assessment.

No time to create a set of plants based on your own choice of symbols? Let us create them for you. Just give us your list of plants and chosen symbols, and we'll deliver plants ready to install on your Resource Browser and use for all your planting plans.

E-Learning

Learn Vectorworks Foundation and Landmark Online

This course is an ideal companion for those people who have already completed the two days group or 1:1 training. Alternatively, it is also useful for those completely new to Vectorworks, who find that due to distance they are unable to attend our training courses in person.

Find out more about how you can learn from home or work, at your own pace.

Latest News

What's hot in landcape and garden design, with the latest news & updates...

For many Landscape Architects, BIM (Building Information Modelling) is approaching at speed. They are being invited to participate in projects for which there is a requirement to work with BIM methodologies. Long term CAD / Vectorworks users may find that they need to take a different approach to their traditional drawing methods. We can help. We've created a new course that gets your practice ready to work with BIM and get the most out of your landscape design software.

Company

Design Software Solutions Ltd is a company registered in England. Vectorworks is a registered trademark of Vectorworks, Inc. As Specialist Resellers of Vectorworks, Platinum Bluebeam partners, and Authorised Maxon resellers, we are proud to offer training in the use of Vectorworks®, Renderworks®, CINEMA 4D®, Bluebeam Revu and other complementary design products. All trademarks used on this site are the acknowledged property of the trademark owner.